Japan’s Search for Strategic Security Partnerships
Title | Japan’s Search for Strategic Security Partnerships PDF eBook |
Author | Gauri Khandekar |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2018-01-02 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1317372905 |
As tensions between China and Japan increase, including over the disputed islands in the East China Sea, Japan has adopted under Prime Minister Abe a new security posture. This involves, internally, adapting Japan’s constitutional position on defence and, externally, building stronger international relationships in the Asia-Pacific region and more widely. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of these developments. It shows how trust and co-operation with the United States, the only partner with which Japan has a formal alliance, is being rebuilt, discusses how other relationships, both on security and on wider issues, are being formed, in the region and with European countries and the EU, with the relationships with India and Australia being of particular importance, and concludes by assessing the likely impact on the region of Japan’s changing posture and new relationships.
Japan's new security partnerships
Title | Japan's new security partnerships PDF eBook |
Author | Wilhelm Vosse |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2018-08-17 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1526123142 |
After decades of solely relying on the United States for its national security needs, over the last decade, Japan has begun to actively develop and deepen its security ties with a growing number of countries and actors in the Asia-Pacific region and Europe, a development that has further intensified under the Shinzo Abe administration. This is the first book that provides a comprehensive analysis of the motives and objectives from both the Japanese and the partner-countries’ perspectives, and asks what this might mean for the security architecture in the Asia-Pacific region, and what lessons can be learned for security cooperation more broadly. This book is for those interested in Japan’s security policy beyond the US-Japan security alliance, and non-US centred bilateral and multilateral security cooperation. It is an ideal textbook for undergraduate and graduate level courses on regional security cooperation and strategic partnerships, and Japanese foreign and security policy.
New Directions in Japan’s Security
Title | New Directions in Japan’s Security PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Midford |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 2020-09-06 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1000174174 |
While the US-Japan alliance has strengthened since the end of the Cold War, Japan has, almost unnoticed, been building security ties with other partners, in the process reducing the centrality of the US in Japan’s security. This book explains why this is happening. Japan pursued security isolationism during the Cold War, but the US was the exception. Japan hosted US bases and held joint military exercises even while shunning contacts with other militaries. Japan also made an exception to its weapons export ban to allow exports to the US. Yet, since the end of the Cold War, Japan’s security has undergone a quiet transformation, moving away from a singular focus on the US as its sole security partner. Tokyo has begun diversifying its security ties. This book traces and explains this diversification. The country has initiated security dialogues with Asian neighbors, assumed a leadership role in promoting regional multilateral security cooperation, and begun building bilateral security ties with a range of partners, from Australia and India to the European Union. Japan has even lifted its ban on weapons exports and co-development with non-US partners. This edited volume explores this trend of decreasing US centrality alongside the continued, and perhaps even growing, security (inter) dependence with the US. New Directions in Japan’s Security is an essential resource for scholars focused on Japan’s national security. It will also interest on a wider basis those wishing to understand why Japan is developing non-American directions in its security strategy.
Reinventing the Alliance
Title | Reinventing the Alliance PDF eBook |
Author | G. Ikenberry |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2003-12-18 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1403980195 |
This is an edited volume that examines the US-Japan security alliance, the key to US-Japanese relations since the end of US occupation in the 50s. The alliance has long been a source of both co-operation and stress between the two nations, but with rapid changes in Asia, it has grown more problematic. This book brings American and Japanese specialists together to examine the alliance within the wider regional environment and to determine whether and how the bilateral alliance can evolve and remain at the core of the region's security order.
Japan’s Defense Engagement in the Indo-Pacific
Title | Japan’s Defense Engagement in the Indo-Pacific PDF eBook |
Author | Nanae Baldauff |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 217 |
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ISBN | 3031605799 |
Paths Diverging?
Title | Paths Diverging? PDF eBook |
Author | William E. Rapp |
Publisher | |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Confidence and security building measures (International relations) |
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The author explores the changing nature of Japanese security policy and the impact of those changes on the U.S.-Japan security alliance. He begins his analysis by acquainting the reader with an insider's view of the conflicted Japanese conceptions of security policy and the various ideational and structural restraints on expanding the role of the military. Next, he explores the events of the past decade that have caused huge shifts in security policy and posture and predicts the future vectors of those changes within Japan. Finally, the author overlays the likely Japanese security future on the alliance and concludes that changes in the basic relationship between the United States and Japan must occur if the alliance is to retain its centrality 20 years from now.
Paths Diverging?
Title | Paths Diverging? PDF eBook |
Author | William E. Rapp |
Publisher | Strategic Studies Institute U. S. Army War College |
Pages | 92 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Confidence and security building measures (International relations) |
ISBN | 9781584871507 |
The author explores the changing nature of Japanese security policy and the impact of those changes on the U.S.-Japan security alliance. He begins his analysis by acquainting the reader with an insider's view of the conflicted Japanese conceptions of security policy and the various ideational and structural restraints on expanding the role of the military. Next, he explores the events of the past decade that have caused huge shifts in security policy and posture and predicts the future vectors of those changes within Japan. Finally, the author overlays the likely Japanese security future on the alliance and concludes that changes in the basic relationship between the United States and Japan must occur if the alliance is to retain its centrality 20 years from now.